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Dr. John E. Kelly III serves as Senior Vice President of Solutions Portfolio & Research at International Business Machines Corp. Dr. Kelly served as Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research at International Business Machines Corp. since 2000. Dr. Kelly served as Senior Vice President of Solutions Portfolio and Research at IBM Canada Ltd. Dr. Kelly served as Senior Vice President of Research & Intellectual Property at International Business Machines Corp. He ... served as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at International Business Machines Corp. He serves as Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees of Union College (Schenectady, NY). Dr. Kelly's top priority as head of IBM Research is to stimulate innovation in key areas. Dr. Kelly also leads IBM's worldwide intellectual property business as well as its open source and open standards strategies and practices. Dr. Kelly serves as Senior Vice President of IBM Research. He served as Senior Vice President of Research at International Business Machines Corp. since July 2007 and served as its Group Executive - Technology. He served as Senior Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property of International Business Machines Corp. since September 2004. Dr. Kelly served as senior vice president and Group Executive of IBM's Technology Group since 2000, which develops, manufacturers and markets IBM's microelectronics technologies, products and services, where he was responsible for developing, manufacturing and marketing IBM's microelectronics technologies, products and services. Dr. Kelly joined IBM in 1980. From 1980 to 1990, he held numerous management and technical positions related to the development and manufacturing of IBM's advanced semiconductor technologies. Since 1990, Dr. Kelly served as Director of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center. Since 1994, he served as IBM's vice president of business process reengineering for the Microelectronics Division. Since 1995, he served as vice president of systems, technology and science of IBM Research Division and was responsible for the IBM's most advanced research activities. The following year, Dr. Kelly served as Vice President of Strategy, technology and operations for the Microelectronics Division of IBM. Since 1997, he served as Vice President of Server Development (from work stations to supercomputers) of IBM. Since January 1999, he served as General Manager of IBM's Microelectronics Division, until August 2000. Dr. Kelly served as Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. He serves as Director of Semiconductor Industry Association. Dr. Kelly is on the Board of Governors of The IBM Academy of Technology He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and member of the Union College Board of Trustees. Dr. Kelly received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Union College in 1976. He received a Master of Science degree in physics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1978 and his Doctorate in materials engineering from RPI in 1980. In 2004, Dr. Kelly received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from The Graduate School at Union College.

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